Reviewing Random Films For Fun

August 12, 2014

Land Without Bread (Las Hurdes)

Film 51 in the “1001 Films to see before you die” challenge is 1933’s “Land Without Bread”. Or to give it’s proper title “Las Hurdes”. This 27 minute French documentary sends the entire film showing poor people and how they cope with nothing. No food, no job, no money etc. I didn’t have a clue what the narrator was telling me as he spoke in French throughout the film. I spent most of the film, as you will see below, making up dialogue for people and singing “The Lumberjack Song” from Monty Python and “Mountain Song” by Jane’s Addiction. I can’t remember anything that stood out. I’m kinda glad that this was only 27 minutes. If this had been longer, I would have switched it off by now trying to figure out what was happening, what the narrator was saying and just overall losing interest by the minute. If you want to see this film in it’s entirety, then visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_EcRaBDxQc (Those reading this on Weebly can see the video below). Once you have seen it, let me know what you thought of it. Here is what I had to say while watching Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary, “Land Without Bread (Las Hurdes)”